Lady E. Cumpiano-Alfonso

Ms. Cumpiano is Of Counsel at Sepulvado, Maldonado & Couret. Ms. Cumpiano has been practicing law since 1995, and her practice focuses on civil, commercial, and employment litigation and counseling. Ms. Cumpiano also has experience handling cases related matters of insurance law.

Ms. Cumpiano has worked with Sepulvado, Maldonado & Couret since 2008. Her prior experience includes serving as in-house counsel for the multinational corporation PPG Industries, Inc., where she held the position of Assistant Counsel for Labor, Employment, and Benefits. Before serving as in-house counsel at PPG Industries, she worked as an attorney for the law firms of Thorp Reed & Armstrong (now Clark Hill) in Pennsylvania, and McConnell Valdés in Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.

Additionally, Ms. Cumpiano has served as Adjunct Professor at the University Of Puerto Rico School Of Law. She has also lectured extensively on employment and employee benefits matters before the general public, attorneys, and human resources professionals.

During her legal formation, Ms. Cumpiano achieved the honor of Valedictorian of her law school’s graduating class. She was also selected as the Most Outstanding Student by the Puerto Rico Bar Association.

PRACTICE AREAS

General Civil Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Employment and Labor Law

EDUCATION

University
of Puerto Rico, School of Law, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Valedictorian, 1995
Georgetown University, B.S. in Government and Economics, Cum Laude, 1990

BAR ADMISSIONS

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

NOTABLE REPRESENTATIONS

Ms. Cumpiano has successfully litigated multiple cases before state and federal courts involving complex civil matters, commercial disputes, age discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and wage and hour claims.

Some of the cases she has successfully handled include:

Santiago-Sepúlveda v. Esso Standard Oil Co. (Puerto Rico), Inc. and Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp., 643 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2011).

The firm represented and argued the case before the court of appeals panel on behalf of Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp. The firm successfully argued that the panel should uphold the dismissal of three complaints filed by over one hundred gasoline retailers seeking injunctive and declaratory relief and challenging the validity under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act of the franchise offers they received from Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp. following Esso Standard Oil (Puerto Rico), Inc.’s departure from the Puerto Rico market.